Category: Conference

TEDx Johannesburg is over, so what now?

Nov 17, 2009

in Conference

johannesburg, tedx, tedxjohannesburg, texjhb

OK, so TEDx Johannesburg is over, now what? On the flight home I found myself thinking: “OK, that was great and I feel inspired. So what? What do I need to do to make the whole thing worthwhile? Because if I went and saw ordinary people doing extraordinary things and I do nothing as a…
eLearning colloquium

Oct 27, 2009

in Conference, Education, Technology

colloquium, elearning

I attended an eLearning colloquium on campus earlier today, and posted some notes on my site.
TEDx Johannesburg

Oct 25, 2009

in Conference

community, faimer, johannesburg, presentation, speaker, tedx, tedxjohanne, tedxjohannesburg

I’ve been a longtime fan of the TED conferences and found out last night about the TEDx conference being held in Johannesburg in a few weeks time. The theme is “Uplifting communities“, which ties in nicely with the project proposal I submitted to FAIMER last month (see previous post). So I decided to apply as…
Thoughts on SAAHE 2009

Jul 4, 2009

in Conference, Education

health education, higher education, saahe, twitter, university, wits

Another SAAHE has come and gone and once again, it was an absolute pleasure to attend. The conference was well organised, the presentations were interesting and informative and I think everyone was able to go home having received something of value. I’ll try and share some of my notes and reflections over the course of…
My presentation at SAAHE 2009

Jul 4, 2009

in Conference, Research, Social media

blogging, creative commons, license, microsoft, opendocument, openoffice, physiotherapy, presentation, saahe, slideshare

My presentation at SAAHE looked at the use of blogging as a tool to facilitate ethical and clinical reasoning among final year physiotherapy students in my department. The abstract is available here, and I’ve shared the presentation slides on Slideshare. You can either view it online, or download it. I’ve shared it under this Creative…
SASP congress 2009: final thoughts

May 8, 2009

in Conference, Physiotherapy

cape town, congress, physiotherapy, sasp, south african society of physiotherapy

The 2009 SASP congress has come and gone. I was fortunate enough to be sponsored by Discovery Health, so I could attend all 3 days and managed to see most of the presentations that caught my attention. To be honest, I was a little disappointed with the lack of innovation in the field (using the…
SAAHE ’09: abstract for oral presentation

Mar 30, 2009

in Conference, Education, Physiotherapy, Social media

abstract, blogging, clinical reasoning, collaboration, education, ethics, healthcare, healthcare system, human rights, lecturer, online tools, physiotherapy, professional development, reflection, reflective tool, saahe, social constructivism, social software, student

Here’s the abstract I submitted for SAAHE ’09. It was submitted for consideration in the Innovations and work in progress category. Title The use of blogging as a reflective tool in physiotherapy ethics. Context The use of social software in higher education facilitates collaborative learning practices and mirrors the social constructivist principles of education by…
SAAHE conference 2009

Mar 19, 2009

in Conference, Physiotherapy

blogs, cape town, education, Google Docs, journal, peer review, physiotherapy, saahe, search engines, social media, South African Association of Health Educationalists in Cape Town, students, twitter, undergraduate research groups, wikis

I’ve noticed that I’m getting a few hits from search engines with people searching for “SAAHE”, so I can only assume that with the conference coming up in a few months time, interest is on the rise. The SAAHE conference is an annual meeting of the South African Association of Health Educationalists in Cape Town…
HESS conference: a summary of my thoughts

Dec 19, 2008

in Conference, Education

Angela Brew, community of practice, e-learning, evidence based practice, HESS, higher education, martin oliver, research, scholarship of teaching and learning, summary, technology, technology changing

OK, so I’ve been back for a few weeks now and have had a little bit of time to gather my thoughts regarding the HESS conference, and thought I’d make a note of some of the highlights from my limited perspective. If anyone from the conference feels that I’m way off the mark, feel free…
HESS conference (day 3)

Dec 3, 2008

in Conference, Education

grahamstown, HESS, keynote, presentation, rhodes university

The last day of HESS 2008 has come and gone. It was a short day, but interesting nonetheless. I had the opportunity to see the following presentations: Keynote: Higher education “failing the majority”: Is a four year degree the solution? Keynote: Education as politics Principles for effective professional development in higher education institutions Factors impacting…
HESS conference (day 2)

Dec 2, 2008

in Conference, Education

backpackers, e-learning, HESS, keynote, Pandora’s box, presentation, technology-enhanced problem

Day 2 of the HESS conference is over. I gave my presentation first thing this morning and it seemed to go down well. A few people had some nice things to say, which is always nice to hear. Sometimes I think I’m so far behind what other people are doing, then you get a day…
HESS conference (day 1)

Dec 1, 2008

in Conference, Education

conceptual infrastructure, e-learning, HESS, keynotes, presentation, social software, speaker

OK, so we’ve finished the first day of the conference and it was pretty interesting. Almost every speaker had something to say that I found interesting. I attended the following presentations, most of which were in the e-learning track: Keynote: Opening up spaces for research and enquiry Introducing the construct of “conceptual infrastructure” to support…
Higher Education as a Social Space (HESS) conference presentation

Dec 1, 2008

in Conference, Education

confence, e-learning, grahamstown, HESS, higher education, national monument, old gaol, presentation, prison, social space, south africa

So, I’m in Grahamstown for the Higher Education as a Social Space (HESS) conference that begins tomorrow and I’m staying at the Old Gaol, one of the oldest prisons in South Africa, which has been converted into a backpackers and is a national monument. The programme for the conference looks great although as usual there…
Curriculum and quality: keynote from SAAHE conference 2008

Nov 10, 2008

in Conference, Curriculum

grant, keynote, medical education, open university, presentation, saahe, SAAHE08

I finally got around to finishing my notes from the conference. This keynote presentation from Professor J. Grant, Director of the Centre for Education in Medicine at the Open University, is about how the quality of medical education is measured, and how that measurement could be improved. You can download my notes in the following…
E-learning colloquium

Oct 6, 2008

in Conference

colloquium, e-learning, higher education, presentation, social media

This morning I presented an overview of e-learning at a small colloquium at my university. I didn’t know who would be in the audience so I decided to take a step back and have a look at the e-learning landscape as I see it. I tried to look briefly at the following: Clearly with such…
Conference: Higher education as a social space

Sep 16, 2008

in Conference, Research

abstract, grahamstown, HESS, HESS08, ICT, quality management

I just found out that the abstract I submitted for the Higher Education as a Social Space conference has been accepted. I’ll be presenting a paper on the use of ICT by physiotherapy students in South Africa, based on the results of my Masters thesis. The conference will take place in Grahamstown from the 30…
10th annual conference on World Wide Web applications

Aug 21, 2008

in Conference

African Online Scientific Informations Systems, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, e-commerce, e-government, e-learning, e-society, facebook, google scholar, higher education, online intermediaries, open source, social networks, south africa, students, university of cape town, web 2.0, Web applications, world wide web

Yesterday I registered to attend the 10th annual conference on World Wide Web applications being held at the University of Cape Town from the 3-5 September. It’ll look at the impact of the web on our daily lives, focusing on four tracks or themes, namely; e-commerce, e-learning, e-government and e-society. Some of the presentations I’m…
Expanding the e-learning curriculum: oral presentation from SAAHE

Jul 14, 2008

in Conference, Learning, Technology

digital video, e-learning, learning tool, saahe, SAAHE08

In this oral presentation at the SAAHE conference, Dr. J. Dempers of the Division of Forensic Medicine at the University of Stellenbosch discusses the use of digital video to enhance the e-learning curriculum already in place in the Forensic Pathology Department. Currently, the department makes use of Blackboard to manage all course content besides testing,…
ICT to support physio students: my presentation at SAAHE

Jul 12, 2008

in Conference, Presentation, Research

communication technology, saahe, SAAHE08, students

Here is the full content of the presentation I gave at the SAAHE conference on 20 June, 2008. In it I discuss some of the key findings of my Masters thesis, “The use of information and communication technology as a means of providing support to physiotherapy students“. They include: These findings suggest that South African…
Assessing the assessor: keynote from SAAHE conference

Jul 11, 2008

in Conference, Curriculum

Christina Tan, competence, saahe, SAAHE08

Here are my notes from the second keynote address I attended at the SAAHE conference at the University of Stellenbosch on 20 June, 2008. Professor Christina Tan from the University of Malaya (Malaysia) discussed the importance of ensuring competence among those responsible for examining students, as well as a few interesting points on why we…